The Page-Ladson site was discovered accidentally in the early 1980s when former Navy SEAL Buddy Page found prehistoric elephant bones while scuba diving in the Aucilla River.
Sources
- Discovery Points to Earlier Arrival of First Americans (nationalgeographic.com)
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260135500_First_Floridians_and_Last_Mastodons_The_Page-Ladson_Site_in_the_Aucilla_River (researchgate.net)
- https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0513/Underwater-archaeological-site-recasts-peopling-of-the-Americas-narrative (csmonitor.com)
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